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... and a break from traveling and planning. I went to the cinema one night and luckily the movie was in English with Spanish subtitles so it doubled as homework! I got a taxi from the main square which is surrounded by old buildings and is very traditional. Five minutes later a stepped 300 years into the future. I never expected to find such a modern mall in this city. For my last two days in Cusco I had no classes so I did The Sacred Valley tour ...

... we get to the second set of ruins and he tried to convince the lady to give us new passes and she wasn't having any of it. Sarah and Debbie (the girls from our house) and the rest of the tour are waiting to figure out what's going on, and Sara yells out "this is all because you're bald mike!" Discrimination. Lol.

We didn't get new tickets so just went and wandered around the town and the little market they had set up. We bought some chocolates, ...

... eternally grateful to the entire Carlton family for allowing me the honor to participate in their life adventure around the world. The memories and stories I could tell would take up the entire blog and there are not enough words to truly describe how lucky I feel to have friends that are my chosen family. Peru is only a brief moment of your journey and but to me it was the ultimate, so thank you again. Miss you guys!

... look after you on the trail. The food is great, they wake you each morning by bringing a cup of hot coca tea to your tent, and basin of warm clean water to wash face. Yes the trek is tough, most of us found the first day the hardest mainly because of getting used to the altitude. We started the trail with a night firstly in a hotel at Urubamba, weighing our gear as only allowed to take 2.5 kgs of luggage on the trail, and your daypack. Place all ...

... They have laughed with us and at us and they have been kind and generous. Their lives are so different from ours, they have so little in many respects but they make so much of what they do have, somehow it makes me question the way we live our lives. We found the El Maize Restaurant which was officially considered the finish line at sometime around 4pm. Oscar the Peruvian representative turned up minutes later. ...